Container Park and East Fremont

The Fremont East District sign marks the entrance to a six-block stretch of downtown Las Vegas that trades the enclosed, pedestrian-only atmosphere of the nearby Fremont Street Experience for an open, street-level nightlife corridor. The…

Evel Pie is a pizzeria on Fremont Street identifiable by its colorful, dive-bar exterior and the prominent red, white, and blue motif decorating the space. It opened in two thousand sixteen as an homage to the motorcycle daredevil Evel…

The El Cortez Hotel and Casino is marked by its Spanish Colonial Revival architecture and a prominent neon sign that has sat above the corner of Fremont and Sixth Streets since nineteen fifty-two. Opened on November seventh, nineteen…

The giant metal praying mantis stands guard at the entrance to the Downtown Container Park. Rising fifty-five feet into the air, this sculpture is a one-hundred-and-fifty-times scale replica of a female praying mantis. It is built from…

The most prominent feature of the Downtown Container Park is a towering, fifty-five-foot-tall metal sculpture of a praying mantis at the entrance. This statue, which previously appeared at the Burning Man festival, periodically shoots…

Atomic Liquors on Fremont Street is identified by a large, vintage neon sign perched above the entrance. It began as a small eatery called Virginia’s Café, founded in nineteen forty-five by Virginia Barrett and managed by her daughter…

At the center of Fergusons Downtown stands the Big Rig Jig, a towering, fifty-foot sculpture fashioned from two interlocked, repurposed oil tanker trucks that seem to dance in the air. This structure defines the heart of the site, a…

Big Rig Jig is a forty-two-foot-tall sculpture composed of two decommissioned eighteen-wheeler tanker trucks welded into a gravity-defying, upright S-shape. The installation stands in the courtyard of Fergusons Downtown, a renovated…